Search Results
Title: Poverty Experience and Children's Behavioral and Psychological Outcomes: Contrasting a Latent Growth Curve and Piece-Wise Model of Individual Change
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Tice, Peter Charles |
|
Poverty Experience and Children's Behavioral and Psychological Outcomes: Contrasting a Latent Growth Curve and Piece-Wise Model of Individual Change Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, August 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Poverty; Deviance; Family Income; Family Structure; Family Studies; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty; Self-Esteem; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) Yearly child poverty rates escalated during the late 1980's and early 1990's, averaging near 20 percent during any given year. These yearly snapshots only tell part of the story by masking a time dimension to children's experience with poverty. That is, some children are poor for a short period of time, while others are poor for a longer period, and some are poor for their entire childhood. Scholars are increasingly concerned with the developmental consequences associated with child poverty, and typically measure these consequences in terms of cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Previous research, however, has not directed attention to the relationship between problem behaviors and self-esteem, especially over time. Given the availability of longitudinal data sets, such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), focusing research questions on the long-term consequences of child poverty is now feasible. This dissertation does just that by investigating the relationship between change in children's antisocial behavior and self-esteem as a function of poverty experience. Using three waves of data from the NLSY (1990, 1992, 1994) this dissertation juxtaposes results from two models of individual change: (1) latent growth curve, and (2) piece-wise. The justification for this contrast stems from the equation estimating a latent growth curve slope (change) coefficient. The estimation procedure in a three wave design ignores the second data wave, thus raising the question, 'does ignoring the second data wave smooth over significant change that is captured in a piece-wise model?" The answer is yes; the latent growth curve smooths over significant change suggesting that results from a piece-wise model portray a more accurate (at least statistically) picture regarding poverty experience and change in children's antisocial behavior and self-esteem. Discussion of results focus on the piece-wise model with summary paragraphs from the latent growth curve attached. Further, discussion of the results begins with main effects common to the entire sample, followed by interaction effects between independent variables and seven poverty patterns comprising the sample. The results suggest greater explanatory power in predicting initial value than slope (change) coefficients. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Tice, Peter Charles. Poverty Experience and Children's Behavioral and Psychological Outcomes: Contrasting a Latent Growth Curve and Piece-Wise Model of Individual Change. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, August 2000. |